Achieving UK home heating via green hydrogen would require approximately a 10-fold increase in total renewable electricity generation capacity beyond current levels, an order of magnitude no serious energy policy has discussed and one that is physically and practically impossible to deliver.
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David CebonEvidence Quote
“I've done the calculations for the UK. It's really not possible for the UK to have that amount of offshore wind... It it would require 10 times increase in the amount of electricity that we have now... It's a magnitude that nobody has discussed because the industry knows that it's not practical.”
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How Clean is Hydrogen, Actually? With Prof. David Cebon | The PLUS Podcast— Everything Electric TECHCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:48:15 PM
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